Deployed components

Describes the required and optional components used in Automation Anywhere data center installations.

The following shows how the Automation Anywhere components interact with your data center. Objects in orange are Automation Anywhere components. Objects in blue are provided by your organization.

Automation Anywhere architecture components for Enterprise Client, Control Room, and datacenter

Core Automation Anywhere functionality is distributed between the Enterprise Client and the Control Room across the data center.

Within the data center, the Control Room cluster communicates with the Enterprise Client functions:
  • Bot Creator
  • Bot Runner
  • Web browser

The Control Room is integrated with Bot Store. You can download bots to and from the Bot Store servers.

Data center provided functions used by the Control Room include:

  • Firewall
  • Load balancer
  • Enterprise identity management, (optional) for example Microsoft Active Directory (AD).
  • SMB (Server Message Block) file share
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL Server
  • Subversion server (optional)

Data center component that is not included with Automation Anywhere is External (CyberArk) key vault.